Council Rock group working on new comprehensive plan

Tuesday

May 14, 2019 at 5:00 PM

A 60-member Strategic Planning Steering Team recently met to start work on the three-year plan that will cover the period from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2023.

Council Rock School District officials have started the process for developing the district's new state-mandated three-year comprehensive plan that will cover the period from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2023.

A 60-member Strategic Planning Steering Team of students, teachers, administrators, parents and other residents met recently to kick off work on the plan. The district is getting help with the document from Bucks County Intermediate Unit Strategic Services Director JoAnn Perotti at no cost.

At the recent meeting, school district Superintendent Robert Fraser urged steering team members to think of the strategic planning process as an opportunity to dream and envision new possibilities, district spokeswoman Susan O'Grady said.

Fraser challenged team members to think about what is not in place today that could make a significant impact if incorporated, O'Grady added.

Perotti then gave an overview of the comprehensive plan process and introduced three areas that will be examined: student wellness, redefining student success, and school safety and security.

After breaking into smaller groups to discuss topics such as school start times, mental health services, alternative assessments and others, the steering team came back together as one group to report on what the smaller ones had talked about, and discuss how they might connect.

Required of school districts every three years, comprehensive plans are designed to look at where school districts have been and where they want to go in areas including standards, curriculum, instruction, assessment, materials, resources and others, Pennsylvania Department of Education officials said.

A draft version of Council Rock's new comprehensive plan will be available for review on the district's website, crsd.org, before it goes through the approval process from the school board and state, O'Grady said. It is due to be electronically submitted to the state Department of Education in August, O'Grady said.

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